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Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance Programs

Parent Information Evening

Presentation for the 2022 intake

Presentation Overview

• Programs

• Application

• Preferences

• Testing

• Performance report

• Appeals and preference changes

• Offers

• Key dates

Different programs in public high schools

• Approved Specialist- Department endorsed- school selected and fundedwww.education.wa.edu.au/specialistprograms

• School based - academic extension, debating . . .

Only 24 across WA

• Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance- Selected students from WA, Interstate and Overseas- Target Initiative (TI): fully government funded

Over 100 across WA

unlimited

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance programs

Languages

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Academic programs

• Perth Modern School

(fully selective school)

• Albany SHS (new in 2022)

• Alkimos College (new in 2022)

• Bunbury SHS

• Bob Hawke College

• Carine SHS

• Comet Bay College

• Duncraig SHS

• Ellenbrook SC (new in 2021)

• Fremantle College

• Governor Stirling SHS

• Harrisdale SHS (new in 2021)

• Kelmscott SHS

• Melville SHS

• Shenton College

• Willetton SHS

• Online – regional students only

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Academic programs

Perth Modern School – fully selective

• Up to 225 places at the start of Year 7

• Limited available vacancies in older years

• Residential College

Gifted and Talented Selective Academic program

• Up to 32 places per class at the start of Year 7 (schools operate between one and two classes)

Mathematics, Science, English and Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

• Limited available vacancies in older years

Online

• Unlimited placements

• Mathematics/Science or Humanities

• Only for public school students outside of Metropolitan and Bunbury region. Not available for Albany region Year 7 students from 2022.

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Arts programs

Dance programs

Hampton SHS

Contemporary Dance (32 places)

John Curtin College of the Arts

Contemporary Dance and Classical Ballet

(50 places in total)

Drama program

John Curtin College of the Arts only (75 places)

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Arts programs

Music Theatre program

John Curtin College of the Arts only (25 places)

Media Arts program

John Curtin College of the Arts only (25 places)

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Arts programs

Visual Arts programs

Applecross SHS (28 places)

Balcatta SHS (32 places)

Kalamunda SHS (32 places)

John Curtin College of the Arts (25 places)

Music programs

Churchlands SHS (50 places)

John Curtin College of the Arts (40 places)

Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Languages programs

Languages programs

Mount Lawley SHS (32 places)

Languages: Chinese (Mandarin) & Italian

Rossmoyne SHS (40 places)

Languages: Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese

Apply online education.wa.edu.au/giftedandtalented

Key dates and application guidelines

Lodging an online application for 2022

Lodging an online application for 2022

Will you be in WA for the test?

School in 2021

Special conditions testing

Available or Arts-Only

Exemption.

Home schooled?

Enter local school.

Details about your child

Special Conditions Testing and Exemptions

Special Conditions Testing and Exemptions

Parent/carer contact information

MAXIMUM OF THREE (3)

PREFERENCES ACROSS ALL

PROGRAMS

Select your preferences

Statistical questions only

Additional information

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Testing for Academic programs

Testing All Academic applicants must sit the Academic Selective Entrance Test (ASET)

Placement Based solely on the results of the ASET

Testing for Languages programs

Testing All Languages applicants must meet the academic benchmark before being invited to interview, then ranked on interview

Placement ASET (80%) and interview (20%) converted to score out of 100

Testing for Arts programs

Academic Selective Entrance Test (ASET)

• Applicants for all programs are required to sit the ASET

• UNLESS you have applied and been approved for an Arts-Only Exemption

• Sample Year 6 paper available on our website by 31 December 2020

• Testing details email and Candidate Information Bulletin February 2021

• Illness/misadventure prior to or on the day of testing

• No loss of marks for incorrect answers. Guess if unsure or run out of time.

So, what’s in the test . . .? ? ? ?

The Gifted and Talented ASET test has four equally

weighted components :

• Reading Comprehension

• Communicating Ideas in Writing

• Quantitative Reasoning (Mathematics & Science)

• Abstract Reasoning

Academic Selective Entrance Test (ASET)

Reading Comprehension

• Tests ability to understand and interpret a range of texts, which may include fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, together with diagrams, tables, charts or maps

• No special knowledge in the subject areas is required

• All the information you need to answer the questions is printed on the test paper

Format:

• 35 Multiple Choice Questions

• 35 minutes

• No Dictionary or Thesaurus permitted

Reading Comprehension

Example

The peaceful and submissive wombat

Abhors the very thought of combat.

Shaped like a shaggy little pig,

His joy is but to dig and dig.

A ten foot tunnel is to him

The product of a moment’s whim.

But when this impulse, urge or spasm

Is fanned into enthusiasm,

He’ll burrow on for miles and miles

And miles of subterranean aisles.

Reading Comprehension

Which of the following habits of the wombat is most strongly emphasisedby the verse?

A It digs tunnels in which to hide

B It burrows with astonishing energy

C It moves quickly but without purpose

D It retreats underground the moment someone approaches

Example

Answer: B

Reading Comprehension

Example

Reading Comprehension

The text says that the moons and planets in the solar system move:

A at random

B frequently

C continuously

D anticlockwise

Answer: C

Example

Communicating Ideas in Writing

• Students are presented with a prompt and instructed to present a well organised, creative, interesting and original piece of writing

• There is no restriction on genre or style

• Marked differently from NAPLAN writing

• 25 minutes

Examples: orWhat would have happened if . . .?

*The prompt may also contain an image and text

Quantitative Reasoning

• Assesses reasoning ability in mathematics and science

- may differ from school-based curriculum

• Candidates will be required to extract and interpret information; identify relationships, connections

and differences; solve problems; and identify similarities and differences

Format

• 35 Multiple Choice Questions

• 35 minutes

• No calculators or rulers

Quantitative Reasoning

A water ski rope is designed to stretch 3% under full load.

To what length would a 20 metre water ski rope be stretched when under full load?

A 20.3 metres

B 20.6 metres

C 23 metres

D 26 metres

Answer: B

Example

Quantitative Reasoning

Ben has two red socks and two blue socks in a drawer. They feel the same to touch.

Suppose the first sock Ben takes out of the drawer is blue.

What is the chance of him taking out another blue sock?

A one in two

B one in three

C one in four

D one in six

Answer: B

Example

Abstract Reasoning

Assesses a student’s ability to:

• recognise relationships and think logically

• hypothesise and complete sequences

Format:

• 35 multiple choice questions

• 20 minutes

Abstract Reasoning

Answer: 3

Example

Abstract Reasoning

Answer: D

A B C D

ASET Performance Report

• Standard score on each of the four

components of the ASET (blue column)

• Total Standard Score (TSS) (green box)

• Benchmark score required for consideration

for Academic and Languages programs is

210.00

• No minimum TSS required for Arts programs.

• Report does not indicate placement

• Previous minimum entrance scores available

on website

• Sent by email

Minimum TSS for Academic and Languages

*can be vastly different in older years due to limited vacancy

Appeals & Preference Changes

• Parents can appeal to have one or all of the four academic test components

scores verified by completing an Appeal Form (also Alignment check)

• The Appeal form can be downloaded from the Gifted and Talented website

• The completed Appeal Form must be returned to GTSU within 7 days of the date

the ASET Performance Report email was sent

• Parents can change most preferences no later than 7 days from the date on the

Performance Report email (by phone or email ONLY)

• Arts preferences – only prior to testing

• Languages preferences – prior to 24 May for Round 1 consideration. After this date for Round 2 only.

Academic benchmark

Academic benchmark (minimum TSS) – top one third to be eligible for consideration for academic placement

Student TSS is the combined score from all components of the ASET

Top one third of all applicants who sat the ASET

Academic benchmark

Offers

• There are two formal rounds of offers: Round 1 and Round 2.

• Academic, Arts and Languages places are offered at the same time in each round.

• Applicants will be ranked for each of their preferences - independent of each other.

• Qualifying applicants will receive a maximum of one offer per round: the highest preference for which they are eligible.

• An applicant who receives a second or third preference offer in Round 1 has the option to HOLD that offer going into

Round 2.

• All declined offers from Round 1 go into the pool for Round 2.

• Responses required within 7 working days.

Academic offers example

Program rankings, available places and preferences

Example Year 6 student – ASET score above benchmark ✓

Preference 1 – Willetton Senior High School (64 places available)

2 – Carine SHS (32 places available)

3 – Alkimos College (32 places available)

WSHS CSHS AC

64 places

32 places32 places

Pref 1ranked 85th

Pref 2ranked 27th

Pref 3ranked 15th

Outcome: offer for Carine SHS

Round 1 Offer of Placement

2nd or 3rd preference offers ONLY

Round 2 Offer of Placement

Reserve lists and Reserve offers

• Children who do not receive an offer of placement will be automatically wait-listed if they meet the criteria.

• All offers of placement made from the Reserve List will be made by phone.

• Parents will have up to 48 hours to accept or decline.

• Reserve Lists closes 1 December 2021.

Summary of key dates in 2020/21www.education.wa.edu.au/key-dates-and-application-guidelines

Event Year 6 Years 8 to 10

Applications Close 11.59pm Monday, 8 February 2021

Academic Testing *Saturday, 6 March *12 – 24 March

Arts Testing Throughout Term 1

Arts Interviews Term 2

Academic Performance Reports Late May

Languages Interviews Start Late May

Offers Start Early June

Offers Completed Early July

All Correspondence Completed End of Semester 1

*Academic testing of Years 6, 8, 9 and 10 in regional areas will be held 15-19 March (excludes Bunbury and Albany area Year 6)

*Special Conditions metro testing will be held 9-12 March

Applications now open online

Gifted and Talented website:

www.education.wa.edu.au/giftedandtalented

For all enquiries or to request a change to your child’s application:

Email: gtsu@education.wa.edu.au

or

Phone: 9264 4307